Old Familiar Name Pops Up Amid Chaos and Shattered Glass

Two dead as explosion rocks Norway; Shots fired at youth camp

"NATO member Norway has sometimes in the past been threatened by leaders of al-Qaeda for its involvement in Afghanistan. It has also taken part the NATO bombing of Libya, where Muammar Gaddafi has threatened to strike back in Europe."

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"The blast comes as the Scandinavian country has grappled with a series of homegrown terror plots linked to al-Qaeda, and six years after an uproar over cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in neighboring Denmark.

Last week, a Norwegian prosecutor filed terror charges against an Iraqi-born cleric for threatening Norwegian politicians with death if he's deported from the Nordic country.

The indictment centered on statements that Mullah Krekar (Ed. bold added) — the founder of the Kurdish Islamist group Ansar al-Islam — made to various media, including American network NBC.

Danish authorities say they have foiled several terror plots linked to the 2005 newspaper cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that triggered protests in Muslim countries.

Last month, a Danish appeals court on Wednesday sentenced a Somali man to 10 years in prison for breaking into the home of a cartoonist who caricatured the Prophet Muhammad."

Mullah Krekar. Where have we heard that name before? Hmmmmm. Let me tell you where. On the bottom of page 39 and continuing on to page 40 of America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It, by Mark Steyn, Krekar is quoted:

"We're the ones who will change you," Norwegian imam Mullah Krekar told the Oslo newspaper Dagbladet in 2006. "Just look at the development within Europe, where the number of Muslims is expanding like mosquitoes. Every Western woman in the EU is producing an average of 1.4 children. Every Muslim woman in the same countries is producing 3.5 children."

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"Our way of thinking will prove more powerful than yours."

What followed the publication of that book, of course, is well known. The Canadian Islamic Conference, reading that passage, attributed Krekar's words to Steyn himself and brought Steyn up before one of our Human Rights Commissions, although people who can actually read knew full well the words were Krekar's, not Steyn's.

But people who can actually read do not include either liberal and Liberal leftards who think we're racist and paranoid and that our Human Rights Commissions serve a useful purpose. Indeed, they do. Useful for liberal leftards. So the subject immediately became the focus of heated debate which has continued ever since.

Krekar's been stirring up shit in Norway, too, of course.

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